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Synonym: doubtfulprobationaryprovisionalprovisionarySimilar words: tentativelyrepresentativeostentatiousorientationpresentationargumentationrepresentationimplementationMeaning: ['tentətɪv]  adj. 1. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon 2. unsettled in mind or opinion. 
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91. Alternating attempts at forthright assertion of authority and tentative gestures of conciliation exacerbated the situation.
92. The Hampshire powerhouse risked little by taking his first tentative net against the spinners late yesterday afternoon.
93. He put a tentative arm up; instantly one pulled over, in a rolling wave of black slush.
94. For the second time, there was a tentative tap on the door.
95. Time Inc., the publishing unit of Time Warner has shown tentative interest in black magazines.
96. A more tentative evolution towards greater breadth and flexibility would be expected.
97. Discussion: including any inferences resulting from statistical tests together with tentative explanations and unresolved questions. 6.
98. Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.
99. But the generality and power can vary from the local and tentative to the universal and highly probable.
100. Blackwell's radical ideas point to the tentative beginnings of a discourse on active female sexuality.
101. Renshaw has set a tentative date of mid-1993 for her return, when her youngest child will be at playgroup.
102. It seemed so unlike his own withdrawn, tentative inclusion in the life around him.
103. Reluctantly she took the rolled flatcake, but waited until he had begun eating his before taking her first tentative bite.
104. Ideally[sentencedict.com], the final stage of your analysis is to offer a tentative conclusion regarding the issue.
105. The tentative diagnosis was temporal lobe epilepsy which affected his personality.
106. There were no task forces, no special commissions, no proposed possible preliminary outlines of conceivable tentative recommendations.
107. Clutching himself he crawled back to the cabinet and ran a tentative hand over the woodwork.
108. In a rather tentative manner, they made some suggestions on how they thought it could be improved.
109. To religious conservatives, however, even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.
110. Over the years, Maud's politics got busier and fiercer, as his became more tentative and abstract.
111. Such theories are still very tentative.
112. His tentative conclusions were damning.
113. I think we can draw up tentative plan now.
114. She rose and took a tentative step backward.
115. I have some tentative suggestions.
116. What is a tentative advertising appropriation?
117. Each step he took was slightly tentative.
118. He still held a tentative relationship with Marjorie Stafford.
119. He suddenly realizes that their tentative romance is over.
120. In consequence there were numerous tentative measures of codification.
More similar words: tentativelyrepresentativeostentatiousorientationpresentationargumentationrepresentationimplementationnativeconfrontationrelativelucrativenarrativeincentiverelativelycooperativepejorativeinnovativeinitiativealternativelegislativeconservativeadministrativemotiveactivefurtivestaticactivelydeductivepunitive
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